Does anyone have any clue where I can find a copy of the scores for the Kabelac Wind Sextet? Other than mentions of it in Kabelac rep lists and the one...
Please excuse the commercial message. Quite a few people over the summer have contacted me about the availability of both Prestige and Festival clarinets....
I had very strange experience last week. My summer projects were Bb saxes (tenor and soprano) and flute, all my listening and practicing on those instruments....
how do you make a chainsaw sound like a baritone sax? add vibrato sent from my glitchy iPhone On Sep 6, 2008, at 12:21 PM, john webster <jwebster34@...>...
Traditional jokes aside, I am talking about my experiences of expectations and sensations. Any instument can be ugly inappropriate, any can be WONDERFUL, or at...
Re returning to the bass clarinet after a break. I have had a similar experience this summer. Having had three years of concentrating on BCL to the exclusion...
I haven't seen concertina live. What folk music? I did see/hear a performance several years ago of piazzolo concerto for bandoneon and guitar, It was...
Are you kidding me? "Misery Stick?" I've always loved doubling on clarinet, while playing the sax in jazz bands. Never had a problem. I always look forward to...
Hi Group, I've just been asked to play BBb Contrabass for one piece in an excellent concert band that I play with. The conductor loaned me what looks like a...
Hello, I was lucky enough to have the experience of playing a contra last year in a wind band. They do have their own reed and unfortunately, they cost around...
Unless the contra is very old and has the "large" old mouthpiece, Rico has an all purpose bass sax, contra-alto, contra bass reed that is pretty good. I would...
I finally overcame procrastination, got everthing done that I wouldn't otherwise do, and decided I absolutely HAD to work on reeds today. My old one served me...
Hi John et al. I've played contra in several professional orchestras in Europe and Australia. I've never used anything other than contrabass clarinet reeds -...
 I tried Legere reeds on my Bass clt two or three years ago and couldn't get the strength right.. Recently tried the Bari 's based on several recomendations...
... what ... no ... of ... contra? ... work? ... not. ... than a ... quality ... i.e. ... stable ... i play the contrabass I'm using Vandoren contrabass reeds...
here is one about trumpets. how many second trumpet players does it take to change a light bulb? answer is at the end.i play a very different array of...
First, anyone who was involved with Ike. I hope that you are all safe and sound now. We were hit but now have electricity back...yeah. And I took my...
Hi, Ledonna, My sister and mother live in Cypress - I think a northwestern suburb of Houston. Although they were not in an evacuation zone, they ended up...
Thanks for the answer. It makes complete sense. I haven't heard about Cypress yet either. I'm actually in Pasadena and there are places here that still...
I forgot to mention that all saxophones have automatic double octave (register) keys as well for the same reason. The only difference is that the openings...
Karl, I attended a saxophone workshop that answered that question. The clinician had early saxophones made by Adolph himself. These had two keys for left ...
I have a Conn alto sax from 1900 with the manual double octave keys, and I think they essentially disappeared altogether shortly thereafter. I've only played...
I have a probably-close-to-century-old Buffet tenor with 2 register keys. It's not hard to adjust to it (what else does your thumb have to do on a sax...
I would be willing to play two octave keys...over the unreliable mechanism on the one bass clarinet i borrowed. we do that on clarinet from clarion to low...
for doublers who are not quite happy with the bassoon and the flicking necessity, there is a relatively new development of an automatic octave mechanism by...
My teacher (principal bass clarinet in "Nouvel orchestre philarmonique de radio France", now retired) play an old buffet bass clarinet (very nice tone) with...
Phil finally deilvered, so now I have 10 bass clarinet harnesses in stock and ready to go. What's a bass clarinet harness? If you ever want to play standing...
Can anyone recommend a good WW tech in the Philly area? I've got an old Selmer bass that needs some TLC before I use it in a concert in late October. I used...
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